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A 19-year old half-Korean was confirmed to be among the dead during Monday¡¯s shooting rampage at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Virginia. The girl, identified as Mary Karen Read, was killed during a campus massacre that left 33 people dead, the 24-hour news channel YTN reported Wednesday morning. Her death was confirmed by the president of the Federation of Korean American Associations of New Jersey and a Korean American councilman of Palisades Park, the report added.
Read was born in Korea to a Korean mother and American father who worked for the U.S. Air Force and graduated from Fairfax's Annandale High School last spring.
Meanwhile, the father of Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-hui reportedly committed suicide. Radio Korea, a broadcaster for Korean expatriates in Los Angeles, said rumors spread in Virginia¡¯s Korean community that the killer¡¯s father slashed a main artery with a knife after learning that his son was identified as the gunman in the shooting massacre. The shooter¡¯s mother also tried to kill herself but failed and is in critical condition, the broadcaster added.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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